Rehearsal in serial memory for visual-spatial information: evidence from eye movements.

Full Abstract

It is well established that rote rehearsal plays a key role in serial memory for lists of verbal items. Although a great deal of research has informed us about the nature of verbal rehearsal, much less attention has been devoted to rehearsal in serial memory for visual-spatial information. By using the dot task--a visual-spatial analogue of the classical verbal serial recall task--with delayed recall, performance and eyetracking data were recorded in order to establish whether visual-spatial rehearsal could be evidenced by eye movement. The use of eye movement as a form of rehearsal is detectable (Experiment 1), and it seems to contribute to serial memory performance over and above rehearsal based on shifts of spatial attention (Experiments 1 and 2).

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Author information

Author/s: Tremblay, Sébastien (S); Saint-Aubin, Jean (J); Jalbert, Annie (A);

Affiliation: Ecole de psychologie, Université Laval, Quebec, PQ G1K 7P4, Canada. sebastien.tremblay(-atsign-)psy.ulaval.ca

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychonomic bulletin & review (Psychon Bull Rev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jun; vol 13 (issue 3) : pp 452-7

Dates: Created 2006/10/19; Completed 2007/01/10;

PMID: 17048730, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Attention - physiology
Eye Movements - physiology
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Humans
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